Thomas Kelly

Mongolia 2010 Trip Guide

Thomas L. Kelly is a native of Santa Fe, has lived in Nepal since 1978. Formerly a Peace Corps volunteer and Care Program officer, he has been a renowned professional photographer since 1985 and is now a documentary film maker. He has led cross-cultural trips throughout South Asia and Mongolia. His photographic books include Abbeville's Sacred Landscape and Pilgrimage in Tibet, Tibet: Reflections from the Wheel of Life, The Hidden Himalayas, Mamatoto: A Celebration of Life.

Award-winning photographer, wife anthropologist and herbalist Carroll Dunham, and their boys Liam 13 and Galen 9. They have called the Himalayas home for over twenty years. This is their 8th summer season in the beloved Bunkhan Valley with Lapis Sky Camp. They have produced award-winning films on the Himalayas for BBC, PBS, ITV, Channel 4, National Geographic and CBC. They love nothing more than drinking deep with kindred spirits the spacious inner winds of meditation, combined with riding fast horses in vast spaces of wilderness with the wind on their cheeks.